
“Desert In” has the sex appeal and narrative finesse of prestige TV and the aesthetic of an art film. The remainder have been rolling out two per week on Boston Lyric Opera’s streaming service,. The first two episodes of “Desert In” premiered June 3. Co-produced by Long Beach Opera and by Boston Lyric Opera, which commissioned the work, the eight-episode streaming miniseries is the brainchild of LBO Artistic Director and Chief Creative Officer James Darrah, composer Ellen Reid and peña, who has had success as a playwright and as a TV writer (“Insecure,” “Motherland: Fort Salem”). Until now, that is, because he and his friends have created it.

The writer, who uses all lowercase letters to spell his name as a way of “owning language in a different way,” didn’t find the opera he was looking for onstage at the Met.
